Hi Guys

More feedback streaming in from satisfied clients.

The latest (from a forum member) in just about 30 minutes ago...

"Hi Steve,

Checked out the results and I must say it's pretty awesome. Saw huge spikes in traffic from last night and today so far. Looks you guys got this down pretty well and did exactly as you claimed. I've attached the screenshots from both google analytics and godaddy because the godaddy stats have a 24 hour lag so I don't think the effects of the campaign have been recorded yet. However, it's pretty obvious in the google screenshot.

It was cool seeing our site on the front pages of delicious and especially cool seeing the links on the high pr scraper sites."

We have also uploaded a video that goes into more detail as to how this sort of Campaign works and also how it falls smack bang into our whole "Simple Leveraging" Ethos.

The Video can be found here: http://simpleleveraging.com/slschat/index.php/topic,78.0.html

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve,

I'll keep an eye out for the link.

MyraPe8

Hi Gang

Got a PDF andf Video coming out shortly about this and will then send it out.

cheers

Steve

Hi Steve

I signed up for "Friends" but have not received any emails about "Friends" and am still not 100% sure what its about but I assume its bookmarking other peoples sites.

cheers
Shaun

Hi Steve,
thanks for all you educational videos. I have a few questions for you.
What kind of sites/topics are prefered for this method? Pure information sites or is it also possible with shopping related sites.
What kind of costs is involved to get a campaign rolling?

Thanks for all the help.

Pete

Hi Gang

Details of one of the Campaigns can be found here:

http://simpleleveraging.com/promotions/videos/socialbookmarking/slingshotanalysis100825.mp4

Hi Myra

I've added you to the aweber list (this should have been done automatically so many apologies) manually so you need to confirm the email that is coming through to you. Once that is done then you will get all the emails sent out.

I've tried to synchronise lists but as is with all cases for some reason these are getting reviewed manually )??) so the process should be sorted by the end of the day.

Steve

Steve,

I know you have my email addy, but aside from the recent correspondence to you I haven't received an email since June.

I check into the forum at least 3 times a week and that is how I found out about the outage and the changes that needed to take place.

So I'm not sure what's going on.

Thanks,

myrape8

Hi Gang

I’ve got some exciting news and very rarely do I say pay attention because I would very rarely be so patronising or insulting but I really do suggest you sit up and pay attention this time round.

I came off a Skype conversation this afternoon with a very good friend on the Internet who is also one of the oldest and most longstanding of our SLSer’s and could hardly contain my excitement.

OK, I know I need to get out more, my wife and son tell me this on a regular basis but in this case my excitement was justified.

Our conversation had been about one of the early tests for our Web 2.o Slingshot Technique and he was actually the first non domestic test and first real client. Now bearing in mind all our previous tests had been on internal projects and we were pretty jazzed about those but this was one of the first real independent tests.

To be honest it didn’t start well and that I was really miffed about through a number of reasons, one of which was largely down to our over enthusiasm. Basically to use a culinary analogy we “over cooked it” in our enthusiasm i.e. in Internet Terms we got too many bookmarks on the Web 2.0 site in question to soon and though we couldn’t stop the process in question we didn’t get the immediate response that I thought we would get as the project though wasn’t quite flagged it certainly was being held back.

I was embarrassed because this was a friend that we’d done a favour for and also I felt let down that we had made the mistake. There were other mistakes but ours was the biggie. However as in all things like this sometimes it pays to let things rest for a few days / weeks and then “re convene” and see how the Campaign had gone. Imagine my excitement this afternoon when he contacted me with the phrase:

Client: I was looking into the test we ran and I think it worked somewhat even though the content was very commercial.  I see about 20 back links just doing a yahoo site: search

sgsmorgan: cool

sgsmorgan: if it hadn't perhaps been so commercial then we could have got loads more traffic and more  coverage in delicious

Client: Would this push the home page up even if it isn't the home page we bookmarked?

sgsmorgan: still there are a number of ways of looking at it I guess

sgsmorgan: yes as you are getting links to the site - thats what back links are all about, not just a link to a page. They affect the whole domain

Client: I pull up #5 on yahoo for xxx xxxx xxxx.  I wasn't anywhere in site before this for that term (84 mill pages competition)

This is a site that was nowhere but was now sitting at No 5 in Yahoo for a very competitive phrase in the Finance business (don’t want to give  away his niche / keyphrase) and that was on the back of a botched Web 2.0 slingshot!!!

Next time we’re going to get that one right!!

This made me then investigate further projects that we’d carried out at the time and re investigate and that was when one of my colleagues pointed out that we registered a brand new domain on 31st July of this year and the blog we set up with three posts was now (as a result of a slingshot and some back links) sitting at No 1 in both Yahoo and Bing for a phrase with lots of advertising (always a good test to see if there’s money in a niche – check to see if the SE’s have flogged any advertising. If they have then there’s money to be made) and 86.1 mill competing pages.

In 24 days!!

The site is also No 20 in Google and climbing.

OK the domain name was heavily key phrased and a .com but 24 days for goodness sake.

24 days ago this domain was merely an item on a keyword spreadsheet for goodness sake. Now the blog is sitting at No 1 for two key phrases (making 4 No 1 slots) and very nicely delivering some traffic and clicks.

How cool is that?

Anyway the upshot of all of this is that the Web 2.0 Slingshot can be made much more effective if we get our “Friends” group really happening so for all you members of SLS.

It’s now “Get Off Butt time” and let’s roll our sleeves up and really really hustle as this could have great benefits for us all as this is free. Yes I repeat. This is free to members and yet more evidence that we try and look after our members. You guys help us pay the bills and we exist to help you. See the members area for further info.

It’s that simple

If you are not a member then you know what to do?

Get in touch and we’ll get you sorted asap

Steve

Hi Pete

I checked the list and your email address is already on it - you're already receiving emails. This was the list that I used to send the information round about the network outage last week.

Cheers

Steve